becktherenegade Wrote:speaking of custom Tron figures, sometime this week im going to craft store and trying to find some paint to re-do my tron deluxe figures. i want the armor to appear shiny so i think i will stick with gloss paint, and then i want the actual parts that are supposed to be cloth (with the little hexagon patterns) to have like a dark grey matte drybrushed over it. any body have any good tips or ideas that might work better?

From what I've read, when it comes to the plastic for painting figures, most customizers use acrylic paint instead of enamel. The enamel sticks well to hard plastic, but when it comes to softer plastic, like that used in action figures, the acrylic sticks better (and they are available in gloss as well).

becktherenegade Wrote:speaking of custom Tron figures, sometime this week im going to craft store and trying to find some paint to re-do my tron deluxe figures. i want the armor to appear shiny so i think i will stick with gloss paint, and then i want the actual parts that are supposed to be cloth (with the little hexagon patterns) to have like a dark grey matte drybrushed over it. any body have any good tips or ideas that might work better?

From what I've read, when it comes to the plastic for painting figures, most customizers use acrylic paint instead of enamel. The enamel sticks well to hard plastic, but when it comes to softer plastic, like that used in action figures, the acrylic sticks better (and they are available in gloss as well).

usually i use acrylic paint for every thing that i do including custom disney artwork. acrylic paint dries very fast and sticks well to plastic so its nice to use. i also heard someone say that i may want to paint the Tron armor for the figures with an airbrush... do i really need to spend money on an airbrush or can i just hand paint the armor with glossy black acrylic paint?

"why do you want programs to think he's alive?"
"maybe he is. and maybe if others think so too, theyll be braver, think for themesleves some more, not sit still for clu's rules"
-Beck

becktherenegade Wrote:usually i use acrylic paint for every thing that i do including custom disney artwork. acrylic paint dries very fast and sticks well to plastic so its nice to use. i also heard someone say that i may want to paint the Tron armor for the figures with an airbrush... do i really need to spend money on an airbrush or can i just hand paint the armor with glossy black acrylic paint?

Well, if you're good, you can brush the paint on if you need to. When it comes to most people who customize figures, they use brushes to paint their figures more than they use airbrushes or even spray cans of model paint. Honestly, I never heard of using an airbrush on figures, but when it comes to plastic models of figures and vehicles (sometimes at a bigger scale), airbrush is an option used. But like I said, I've never heard of an airbrush being used for an action figure.

Actually, for adding detail, I've seen someone use acrylic paint slightly watered down to paint into notches where the circuit patterns. I plan to do that with mine as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLasOyag68where to buy abortion pill http://blog.bitimpulse.com/template/default.aspx?abortion-types buy abortion pill online

becktherenegade Wrote:usually i use acrylic paint for every thing that i do including custom disney artwork. acrylic paint dries very fast and sticks well to plastic so its nice to use. i also heard someone say that i may want to paint the Tron armor for the figures with an airbrush... do i really need to spend money on an airbrush or can i just hand paint the armor with glossy black acrylic paint?

Well, if you're good, you can brush the paint on if you need to. When it comes to most people who customize figures, they use brushes to paint their figures more than they use airbrushes or even spray cans of model paint. Honestly, I never heard of using an airbrush on figures, but when it comes to plastic models of figures and vehicles (sometimes at a bigger scale), airbrush is an option used. But like I said, I've never heard of an airbrush being used for an action figure.

Actually, for adding detail, I've seen someone use acrylic paint slightly watered down to paint into notches where the circuit patterns. I plan to do that with mine as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLasOyag68

thanks for the help! not sure if i will paint over the circuitry or not.... of course, he proved that it wouldn't hurt anything but still, i would accidentally find a way to screw it up. i think im just going to stick with making the armor look more like shiny leather, the suit look less like plastic, and their helmets very shiny and glass looking. i know a place in florida (which im going to in a few weeks) that still sells Rinzler deluxe figures. i might pick up another one to go along with the one i already have and i might do the same thing to him that im doing to the rest of the figures, but then paint the circutry white.abortion pills online http://www.kvicksundscupen.se/template/default.aspx?abortion-questions cytotec abortion

"why do you want programs to think he's alive?"
"maybe he is. and maybe if others think so too, theyll be braver, think for themesleves some more, not sit still for clu's rules"
-Beck

becktherenegade Wrote:thanks for the help! not sure if i will paint over the circuitry or not.... of course, he proved that it wouldn't hurt anything but still, i would accidentally find a way to screw it up. i think im just going to stick with making the armor look more like shiny leather, the suit look less like plastic, and their helmets very shiny and glass looking. i know a place in florida (which im going to in a few weeks) that still sells Rinzler deluxe figures. i might pick up another one to go along with the one i already have and i might do the same thing to him that im doing to the rest of the figures, but then paint the circutry white.

No problem. I actually live in Florida (I live in Madison, but spent a couple of years in Tallahassee and Orlando).

trekking95 Wrote:Greetings, I'm back! Just found a B-Wing pilot at Winners (Canadian version of TJ Maxx), the head looks not bad! I know that Wedge Antilles might look better but he is harder to find and expensive!

So what was the way to fix the Rinzler neck so the new head wont be looking down?

Either heat up the neck ball and try to work it back carefully or cut off the neck of the figure you're taking the head off of and glue it onto the Rinzler body. Glad you were able to find a B-Wing pilot for your figure custom.

I know it's been a while since anyone last posted in this topic, but I figured I'd post about things on my end. Been sort of busy to where I haven't been able to do any of the customs I hoped to do. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get around to doing the custom figures I've been meaning to do. I managed to pick up a spare Kevin Flynn lightcycle that I plan on turning into the black lightcycle we saw on Sam's shelf at the start of the film.

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Sorry it's been a while since I last posted. Life's been sort of busy for me and been trying my best to handle it. I still haven't gotten around to doing the customs as I've said I'd like to do, but I've gotten some figures to use as bases and others for parts. But, I've also been looking around at other figures to see if there's any that may be able to be use used for customs. I found this G.I. Joe Retaliation figure, named Mouse, that looks a potential young Alan Bradley for a TRON or Alan Bradley custom figure (at least to me it does, but it may not to y'all). Here's the picture of the figure:

I wanted to post a new update. There's a seller on eBay I know personally from the Replica Prop Forum. He does resin casts of various action figures for customization purposes. He's got some including the B-Wing figure mentioned here, as well as some others. I've purchased from him before. You can check it out here: http://www.ebay.com/usr/jokabofe?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2754